September 30, 2015

Three Articles On Russia's Military Intervention In Syria And Its Possible Consequences

In the eyes of the evil Western mainstream media the statesman Putin is worse than the genocidal terrorists of ISIS.

Putin has managed to piss off Sultan Erdogan, King Salman, Caliph Baghdadi, and Emperor Obama at the same time. The man is a god. His face should be on every Russian coin there is in circulation if it is not already.

The four corrupt leaders he has pissed off have coordinated the destruction of Syria since day one.

The Syrian army, Hezbollah, and the PKK have fought valiantly against ISIS on the ground but they were never enough to take them on.

This genocidal terrorist group has an endless supply of well-armed mindless recruits from all over the world. It was clear from the very beginning that it was not acting by itself.

ISIS would not be able to sustain itself without coordination, aid, and direction from large states and intelligence agencies. There are many hands involved. Saudi Arabia is indoctrinating them, Turkey is housing them, Israel is treating them, and America is arming them.

So it's good to see a bigger power step in on the other side for once, and genuinely contribute to the defeat of this terrorist group that has been legitimized in the evil Western mainstream media as both Islamic and as a coherent state. This is the same pathetic media that has tried to vilify Putin but has thankfully failed.

Turkey's July decision to finally open its air bases near Syria and
Iraq, including Incirlik, to the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic
State was a game changer for the region. It meant the coalition's air
raids against IS would become more effective and less costly.

Only days after the first detachment of six American F-16s was deployed
to Incirlik in early August, the media reported the deployment of six
Russian MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor fighter jets to the Mezze air base
near Damascus. Russia's military presence in Syria continued to grow
thereafter, with the number of Russian warplanes said to have reached
28, including long-range Su-27 Flanker interceptor fighter jets.

The Russian military buildup, backed with air-to-ground assault
aircraft, attack helicopters, drones, air defense systems, ground assets
and a large number of military personnel, is said to have two aims:
fighting IS and preventing the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad's
regime. In this sense, the impact of the Russian intervention is much
stronger. By dramatically boosting its force and weight in the Syrian
equation, Russia has turned upside down the game plans of others, chief
among them Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Defense
Secretary Ashton B. Carter warned last week that Moscow’s military
buildup could amount to “pouring gasoline on a fire.” But as American
officials see it, the buildup enables Russia to simultaneously pursue
several longstanding goals.

They
see Russia as trying to avert the collapse of the Assad government for
as long as it can while it establishes its most important foothold in
the Middle East in decades. That military presence in Syria could remain
in place even if Mr. Assad is eventually supplanted by a new
government, because Russia would be a part of any transition talks. And
if Russia, in the middle of all of this maneuvering, can also damage the
Islamic State, then so much the better for Moscow.

In his Monday address at the United Nations, Vladimir V. Putin,
the Russian president, alluded to reports that thousands of volunteers
had left Russia to join the Islamic State. “We cannot allow these
criminals who have already felt the smell of blood to return home and
continue their evil doings,” Mr. Putin said.

The bad blood between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin and their so-called dueling speeches at the United Nations on Monday masks a deeper reality: The two presidents are today in more alignment than they have been in years on what to do about Syria. As a result, some sources suggest that despite the tough rhetoric on the surface between the two countries, there’s a much higher likelihood of an accommodation with Moscow—an accommodation that will prolong Bashar al-Assad’s regime and place the U.S. and Russia on the same side against the so-called Islamic State (ISIL).